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| 163933 | 2003-07-30 10:48:00 | How do I prevent Microsoft access to windows xp. Home Edition? I don't want them "Snooping Around" in my machine. Can they turn access on again ? and can I tell if they've already checked my system? ? |
vitom (1016) | ||
| 163934 | 2003-07-30 10:52:00 | They don't "snoop around" in your machine, contrary to popular belief and conspiracy theories :) Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 163935 | 2003-07-30 10:53:00 | > How do I prevent Microsoft access to windows xp. Home > Edition? > I don't want them "Snooping Around" in my machine. > Can they turn access on again ? and can I tell if > they've already checked my system? ? First Microsoft does NOT "Snoop" round in your PC! |
stu140103 (137) | ||
| 163936 | 2003-07-30 10:55:00 | check this out (www.majorgeeks.com) | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 163937 | 2003-07-30 11:03:00 | > check > t > is out (www.majorgeeks.com) My option is that is so over kill!, & some one is over exaggerating!(spelling) |
stu140103 (137) | ||
| 163938 | 2003-07-30 12:08:00 | How can you prove their not snooping inside your pc? You can't :p First point of call is install antispy, and definitely delete the help assistant user logins. *Stay away from WMplayer9 which sends reports of every dvd you play to MS. *Install a good firewall like Nortons. Hey anyone know about svchost.exe???? You have to let this program access the internet or else you can't do anything on the net. Dodgy as! No-one knows what it actually does, no-one can monitor the packets its sending and it wouldn't be hard for MS to slip in some code to do some spying. I think its a backdoor/trojan for MS into your pc. - Would love to see some irrefutable proof about svchost ;) |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 163939 | 2003-07-30 12:12:00 | In fact, seeing everyone is so enamoured with doing windows updates all the time, whats to stop MS from issueing a general release for every operating system as a "critical patch", and that patch be a backdoor into your computer. In fact its probably happened already and all you windows update suckers have fallen for it :D Heck it could be inside DirectX or something? Gotta love the conspiracies ;) |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 163940 | 2003-07-30 12:26:00 | Well, yes, you might love that idea, but the many people who test those updates before general public release won't exactly all keep quiet if they're paid not to say that something contains spyware. WMP9? I turn off automatically acquiring licences, identification, etc, and Kerio alerts me to any connection attempts (which I also have a rule to block). Just tried blocking svchost from all access, and, yup, internet browsing went through the drain. That said, however, all it appears to be doing was listening for incoming connections. |
agent (30) | ||
| 163941 | 2003-07-30 12:31:00 | > Well, yes, you might love that idea, but the many people who test those updates before general public release won't exactly all keep quiet if they're paid not to say that something contains spyware. Heard of Strategic Division of Labour?? :) Besides the testers wouldn't be testing the source code, they would be testing the compiled code, so they don't actually know whats going on beind the scenes -right? |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 163942 | 2003-07-30 12:50:00 | > How do I prevent Microsoft access Use Linux |
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